Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: ralphs%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 20:19:08 GMT References: Organization: The 23:00 News Lines: 20 dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes: > I just spent 45 minutes backing up my 30MB hard drive onto 360K > floppies. I'm looking for a better backup program! Here's a list > of features I'm looking for, in decreasing order of importance: [list of Good Things removed] > Anyone have any pointers to such a program? Preferably public domain, as > I'm notoriously cheap. :-) This would be Nice. :-) Backup programs should be given their spot in a newsgroup (alt.religion.backups?). Everyone has their favorite. The one that I've seen that does what you are asking for is FASTBACK, unfortunately it is commericial. But it works on my systems (one IBM PC, one IBM/XT, and ITT xTRA, a COMPAQ 386/16, a no-name 386/25 and a homebrew 8-bit 80286); if it were going to be inconsistent, I think I would have found out. Look to EGGHEAD Software for a good price.